Word: counterfuls
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...oven pizza or a chinois chicken salad at an in-store Wolfgang Puck's To Go and dine by a roaring fireplace in a cozy corner of the market--a move that would have once seemed about as down-market as getting ready for a date at the makeup counter at Macy's. The Ukrop's chain, based in Richmond, Va., has been selling prepared meals since the mid-'80s. Today 45% of store space is devoted to selling 130 takeout items, which are freshly prepared, often in front of customers...
...described him as "hot tempered and strong willed" and that she gave up a very nice life-style and risked jail to get away from him. Also the claim that women in the underground take children "from fathers who don't get two minutes in their own defense" runs counter to anything our office has seen. Rather, domestic-violence perpetrators use the legal system to harass their partners. Our organization cannot condone parental kidnapping, but we can understand the forces that may drive battered women to believe it is their only option. PAMELA COUKOS, Public Policy Director National Coalition Against...
...strengthened the provisions that would penalize the industry for not meeting targets in reducing teen smoking. Also, McCain and the White House acted to pacify convenience-store owners by restricting the FDA's ability to unilaterally ban the sale of cigarettes from a whole class of retail outlets. To counter efforts to kill the bill (led by Republican Senator DON NICKLES of Oklahoma), the White House will stage a massive rally on the South Lawn on Wednesday, at which the President and Vice President will meet with 1,000 schoolchildren. That, according to public-health advocates, is the number...
With the exception of Donald Fisher, CEO of Gap, Inc., who has been a prominent donor to the 226 effort, California businesses have been staying out of this fight. To make sure they do, labor has threatened to introduce counter-initiatives that could negatively affect the tax status of corporations that make political contributions. And by some interpretations, Prop. 226 could be used to require corporations to get their stockholders' permission before making political contributions...
...letter goes on to counter claims that the concentration of minority students in the Quad Houses and Quincy House before randomization somehow detracted from "campus-wide student interaction...